Draw-head attachment



(No Model.)

0. E. MARK.

DRAW HEAD ATTACHMENT- 6. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLIE E. MARK, OF FLINT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE MARKS AU- TOMATIC CAR COUPLER COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

D RAW-H EAD ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,761, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed June 525, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLIE E. MARK, of Flint, in the county of Genesee and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments to Draw-Heads of Railway-Oars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form apart of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in attachments to drawheads or draw-bars for railway-cars, by which means are provided for preventing the loss of links.

In the operation of railroads wherein the links form the means of securing cars together it frequently happens that an extra link is found when coupling, and the operator, instead of carrying it to the caboose or to the tool-box on the locomotive, throws it down by the side of the track or into the ditch, and it almost as frequently happens that when he desires to couple two cars together neither is provided with a link, and hence he is eompelled to search for one, sometimes causing delay and damage.

The object of this invention is to provide means for safely carrying additional links in such a manner that they cannot be displaced or lost.

The invention consists in providing the draw-head with a T-shaped shank and head projecting from the side of the draw-head and cast integral therewith or secured thereto in any desired manner.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the draw-head of a railway-car in perspective and detached, and which may be of any desired form or construction. Cast integral with it, or secured to it in any convenient manner, is a shank, a, projecting from the side of such draw-head and terminating in a cross-head, b, the shank and cross-head forming a T-shaped device. should extend laterally, front and rear, parallel with the surface of the draw-bar, and should be ofsuch length that the swinging of the link, B, hung thereon will not throw it off the device.

It will readily be seen that by this device the link must be raised until the space between the legs of the link is parallel or nearly parallel with the plane of the cross-head before the link can be placed upon the shank, k

and then being released it will hang perpen dicnlarly by its own gravity, and can only be removed by a reverse of this motion.

lVhat I claim as my invention is In combination with the draw-head of a railway-car draw-bar, a T-shaped device projecting from the side of such draw-head, substantially as and for the purposes described.

CHARLIE E. MARK.

\Vitnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, J AY H. CLARK.

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